The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-07-27
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hand you an article published in
the New York World of to-day,
dated from Parkersburg, W. Va,
which you will greatly oblige me
by publishing. 1t was probably
not intended for use in West yir-
ginia
The New York Horld, through
some -instumentality, seems to have
been made the organ for the pub
LEGATION of vicious assaults upon me
from.the beginning of the session
of the Legislature, and the canvass
for the election of Senator ia West
Virginia. This article purports to
have been written from Parkersburg
and is probably the immediate work
of a newspaper correspondent who
resides there but who is simply the
instrument of the same class of pre-
tended Democrats who, having vi
olated every usage of our party in
comprising my defeat for Senator,
are now anxious to find, and have
suggested excuses for the betrayal
of party trust and. the World seems
at all times to be willing. instru-
ment or vehicle for them for such
purposes The Shameless falseho6d
that / favored the election of Mr..
Blaine in 1884 is well known to
every voter in the State, and Isure-
ly need not make any defense to
such a charge. 1 should be glad to
assume that it was merely the ig-
norance of the correspondent that
made so ridiculous suggestion,
and accompanied it at the same
time by the statement that Mr.. S.
l.. Roger was a member of the Sem
ate of West Virginia, but the design
to create a false and scandaIous inn
preston is so apparent that it must
find its origin from the same sources
that led to the violation of every
principle ofiparty organization and
honorable conflict tosecure my de-
feat, and to accomplish personal
ends.
lam not disposed to complain OF
personal assaults made upon me,
nor have paid public attention to
the SANDERS which from time to
time have been uttered in order to
prepare the way for assaults made
upon myself and upon the party
organization in West Virginia, nor
would l do SO now except that this
statement seeks to give color to the
utterances of an afflicted man, who
has always been kind to me, in or
der to justify the suggestions that
were made during the canvass at
Charleston, and which finally cul-
minated at my own suggestion IN a
Committee of. Investigation, who
had Mr.. Roger before it and fully
and carefully exa mined him as to
all information. discredited every
charge that has been made impli-
eating either myself or any of my
friends of the slightest misconduct
in connection with that campaign.
1 have no hesitation in frankly
saying that 1 knew Mr.. Roger to be
a kind hearted and. seriously aff1ict-
ed man. He wrote me from Gin
einnati, stating that he. was there
and out of money and not knowing
whom else to apply to asked the
loan of $50, for which 1 sent him a
check, which he advised me he was
unable to get cashed. I thereupon
telegraphed him to go to Alex. Nc
Donald & Co. who knew my hand
writing, and they would cash it for
him. Sometime afterwards he wrote
me from Marietta, saying he had
been sick there for some days and
could not get home without furth-
er loan. 1 thereupon sent him a
check for $50. These simple acts
of kindness, the like of which
have done to others time and time
again, is made the basis of villain
Gus, shameful and false accusation
against me and against party in
tegrity in West Virginia: 1 per-
formed these acts of kindness and
the evil spirit actrating these men
seeks to make it the Foundation for
d charge of crime. The correspond.
ent, who has been made the instru-
ment knows himself that it is NOT
unusual. for me TO aid the needy
even sometimes when 1 might know
they are scarcely worthy of it.
Those who inspired this article, as
well as the correspondent, could
very readily know, if they sought
to be fair and just, that there was
no grand jury seeking for Mr.. Roger
So far as / am concerned, 1 court
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